Abstract
Construction has officially begun on a new scientific facility for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). On Sept. 23, OPCW director general Fernando Arias led a ceremony at the construction site just outside The Hague, Netherlands, to mark the occasion. “The ChemTech Centre will strengthen the OPCW’s capabilities to tackle new and emerging chemical weapons threats, as well as to support capacity building for OPCW member states,” Arias said during the ceremony . Since the international Chemical Weapons Convention came into force in 1997, OPCW scientists have worked in a rented building in nearby Rijswijk . As the OPCW has expanded its efforts to end chemical warfare, it has outgrown the rented space. The 2017 Conference of the States Parties agreed that the OPCW needed a new facility, and it has taken action since then to get plans and funding in place. Staff at the new, larger
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